This looks amazing, should allow us to press buttons and dials while wearing the Rift!

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/controlvr/control-vr-motion-capture-for-vr-animation-and-mor

 

Still doesn't help me press the real buttons and dials in my home built cockpit when wearing a rift, so it's useless for me. It has potential for people without cockpits of course, but it will not help with the difficulty of manipulating buttons and dials while your head is moving like with TrackIR i.e. you really need to pause the head tracking while turning dials and pressing buttons in the VC otherwise it's just too difficult to do, hence the reason I built a hardware cockpit in the first place to make manipulation easier.

I think this technology will be a major change for Gaming and Simulation. I have read on forums that XPlane10 and P3D will support this technology (Oculus Rift for now, possibly Control VR later, or other startup companies that supply the necessary hardware).

 

To be able to push buttons, or twist knobs, especially on aircraft like the PMDG 747 NGX or 777 will be really cool, or any other highly detailed aircraft. The issue of your head moving can be fixed by creating a large enough "dead zone" to stabilize head movement to press buttons, etc. I do that now with my TrackIR5 setup profile.

 

This virtual reality concept will be a major improvement to creating even more immersion as to realism and the feeling you are actually in the cockpit.

 

For those who build home cockpits, it won't help, but as the graphics resolution continues to improve with each new generation of head gear, and the ability to control your virtual hands a finders becomes more refined, there may be no need to build a cockpit project.

 

The future is bright!

 

Bill Clark

3dtv as at least you can walk with your glasses on. With occultus goggles may lose sense of realty thinking your trying to grab cellphone or Cheetos ops device disconnected technology fooling the eyes.

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